642 POLYGAMIA DIOECIA^ 



In many pu.L^ of the highlands, at the birth of s 

 child, the nurfe or midwife, from what motive 

 I know not, puts one end of a green flick of 

 this tree into the fire, and, while it is burning, 

 receives into a fpoon the fap or juice which 

 oozes out at the other end, and adminifters this 

 as the firft fpoonful of liquor to the new-born 

 babe. 



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